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  Volcanic eruptions can help better understand Indian monsoon: Study

  September 19, 2020 19:55 IST

  A joint study involving Indian and German scientists has found that large-scale volcanic eruptions can help in better forecast of the Indian monsoon, the annual phenomenon that brings rain over the Indian subcontinent. 

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  1,20,000-year-old human footprints discovered in Saudi Arabia | PHOTOS

  September 18, 2020 23:37 IST

  Researchers in Saudi Arabia have discovered footprints of humans and a number of animals, including elephants, dated to roughly 1,20,000-year-ago.

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  UV light kills COVID-19 virus without harming people: Study

  September 18, 2020 17:05 IST

  In a significant breakthrough, researchers have discovered that using Ultraviolet C (UVC) light with a wavelength of 222 nanometres (touted as safer to use around humans) effectively kills the Covid-19 virus.

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  Big find! Jupiter-sized planet found orbiting a dead white dwarf star

  September 17, 2020 17:30 IST

  A white dwarf is the vestige of a star that has ballooned into a red giant then collapsed back into a dense, dim core that is often about the size of Earth, so this planet is much larger than what is left of its star.

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  World's oldest sperm found in crustaceans trapped in Myanmar amber

  September 17, 2020 13:43 IST

  An international team of scientists has discovered the world's oldest animal sperm inside a tiny crustacean trapped in amber around 100 million years ago in Myanmar.

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  Carbohydrate that novel coronavirus uses to infect cells identified

  September 16, 2020 16:52 IST

  Scientists have identified a key carbohydrate molecule, called heparan sulphate, which the novel coronavirus uses to infect human cells, an advance that may provide a potential new approach for preventing and treating COVID-19. 

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  Some immunosuppressants do not increase COVID-19 risk: Scientists

  September 15, 2020 16:45 IST

  Therapeutics which suppress the immune system in those with inflammatory diseases like psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis "are not associated with a significantly greater risk" for contracting COVID-19, according to a study which says these patients should continue taking their medicine as prescribed.

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  COVID-19 will likely become seasonal, but not yet, say scientists

  September 15, 2020 11:47 IST

  Once herd immunity is attained, the novel coronavirus may follow suit and become a seasonal virus in countries with temperate climates, but until that time, COVID-19 will continue to spread across the seasons, a new study says.

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  Lymphoma patients highly vulnerable to coronavirus

  September 15, 2020 8:58 IST

  Patients suffering from lymphoma, and having low levels of immunity, are considered among the groups at high risk of contracting Covid-19, and even falling prey to the deadly virus, say doctors. 

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  Extraterrestrial: Scientists detect potential sign of life on Venus

  September 15, 2020 6:50 IST

  In an extraordinary discovery, an international team of astronomers has spotted a possible marker of life on Venus, a planet that has not been a significant part of the search for life because of its extreme temperatures, atmospheric composition, and other factors.

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  Computer-designed antiviral proteins inhibit COVID-19 in lab-grown human cells, scientists find

  September 14, 2020 16:36 IST

  Computer-designed synthetic antiviral proteins have been shown to protect lab-grown human cells from SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, scientists say.

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  New Hubble image shows colourful stars packed close together

  September 14, 2020 14:44 IST

  NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released a stunning image of a globular cluster captured by Hubble Space Telescope that features thousands of colourful stars packed close together.  

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  Dining in restaurants may increase Covid-19 spread risk: Study

  September 14, 2020 12:27 IST

  Fro the findings, the research team examined data from adults at 11 facilities across the nation who tested positive for COvid-19 and compared that with a control group of adults without virus infection.

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  Scientists publish images of coronavirus infected cells

  September 13, 2020 16:21 IST

  Scientists have produced images of the novel coronavirus infecting lab-grown respiratory tract cells, findings that illustrate the number of virus particles that are produced and released per cell inside the lungs. 

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  New coronavirus seen up close in graphic details inside lungs

  September 13, 2020 15:03 IST

  In a laboratory setting, the researchers at University of North Carolina School of Medicine inoculated the new coronavirus into human bronchial epithelial cells, which were then examined 96 hours later using scanning electron microscopy.

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  Jupiter's Galilean moons are heating each other up. Find out why

  September 13, 2020 12:24 IST

  Jupiter's moon Europa, Ganymede, Io, and Callisto are warming each other up, according to a recent study. Due to a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Galilean moons and the planet stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them. 

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  Major study of Himalayan turbulence promises more accurate weather predictions

  September 12, 2020 19:36 IST

  The study by scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), which works under the government’s Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been published in Radio Science journal.

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  NASA is looking for private companies to mine Moon's surface. Check Details

  September 12, 2020 12:49 IST

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it is looking for private companies from around the world that can collect dirt and rock from the Moon's surface.

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  Social distancing reduces chance of Covid-19 infection: Study

  September 11, 2020 11:39 IST

  While using public transportation, visiting a place of worship, or otherwise travelling from the home is linked to a significantly higher chance of getting infected from Covid-19, the study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, reported.

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  Mysteries of Dark matter may be unveiled soon, reveals study

  September 10, 2020 8:09 IST

  A team of scientists from the Harvard and Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Institute for Computational Cosmology of Durham University, the UK, Max-Planck Institute in Germany and Key Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ran a detailed simulation of dark matter.

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  Researchers unearths 13-million-year-old fossil ape in Uttarakhand

  September 09, 2020 17:30 IST

  An international team of researchers has unearthed a 13-million-year-old fossil of a newly discovered ape species in Uttarakhand, which is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon.

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  Mutant mice retain muscle mass in space. Read on

  September 09, 2020 13:03 IST

  Several genetically engineered mice spent 33 days abroad the International Space Station (ISS) and surprisingly retained more muscle and bone density than control mice that had not been tempered. 

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  Northrop Grumman names spacecraft in honour of Kalpana Chawla

  September 09, 2020 8:10 IST

  In 1988, Kalpana Chawla started work at NASA Ames Research Center in the area of powered-lift computational fluid dynamics. Her research concentrated on simulation of complex air flows encountered around aircraft such as the Harrier in "ground-effect."

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  Indian researchers demystify process of transformation of glass into crystal

  September 08, 2020 14:42 IST

  A team of Indian researchers has demystified devitrification, which is the transformation of glass into a crystal, and visualised the process for the first time in experiments, the Indian Institute of Science said. Glass is amorphous in nature its atomic structure does not involve the repetitive arrangement seen in crystalline materials.

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  Glaciers in Jammu and Kashmir melting at 'significant' rate, suggests study

  September 08, 2020 13:22 IST

  Glaciers in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh are melting at a "significant" rate, according to a first-of-its-kind study that used satellite data to find that over 1,200 glaciers in the Himalayan region saw an annual reduction in mass of 35 centimetres (cm) on average between 2000 and 2012. 

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  Presence of antibodies may not guarantee protection from COVID-19: Scientists

  September 08, 2020 12:06 IST

  As worries over India's COVID-19 spike mount - the country added 90,062 cases on Monday to take its tally past the 42-lakh mark - scientists are grappling with the pivotal issue of antibodies and trying to understand how they impact on the progression of the disease.

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  Space suits for Gaganyaan astronauts under production in Russia

  September 07, 2020 23:08 IST

  Research, Development and Production Enterprise Zvezdahas started manufacturing personal flight equipment for the Indian cosmonauts undergoing training in Russia, Glavkosmos said on Monday.

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  GREGOR telescope captures disturbingly-close pictures of sunspot. Take a look

  September 07, 2020 19:38 IST

  GREGOR Telescope has captured highest-resolution pictures of the sun and they are undoubtedly eerie and amazing at the same time. The European telescope at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain, and operated by German scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics.